Hong Kong Comprehensive: Who said that those who practice martial arts have no money?

Chapter 14 Pier, Society

After finishing speaking, San Jiangshui turned around and walked towards the pier.Li An followed behind him without saying a word, looking at the busy wharf with his eyes.

In fact, before coming here, Zhou Sheng had introduced the situation here to Li An in Ferry.

Senior Brother Sanjiang Shui has been working at the Triangle Wharf for many years, and now has about three hundred coolies working under him, mainly doing work similar to that of a contractor.

That is to load and unload the cargo ships of the chamber of commerce.

Occasionally, he also works as a part-time broker to introduce experienced crew members to shipowners and managers.

At this time, San Jiangshui, who was walking in front, asked:
"Have you worked on the dock before?"

Li An thought for a while, then responded:
"Not really, but I did sell newspapers at the Yau Ma Tei Pier when I was 13 years old."

At that time, Li An was lonely and helpless, he was young and no one asked him to help, so he could only take newspapers from newspaper vendors and go to the dock to sell them.

A newspaper sells for [-] cents, buys goods for [-] cents, and earns [-] cents.

Every time a small ship calls at the port and the guests disembark, he will step forward to sell.

Generally, citizens have the habit of reading newspapers.When he is lucky, Li An can sell nearly [-] copies of newspapers every day, earning more than three yuan, which can catch up with the wages of white-collar workers.

However, the good times did not last long. Within two days of selling the newspaper, he was kicked out of the dock by the members of the association that managed the dock, and then Li Jianguo took him to work in a restaurant.

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The two came to the dock one after another.

As far as the eye can see, bags of goods packed in sacks are neatly stacked on the cement floor of the pier, like hills.

The shirtless coolies came to the stacked goods one by one, took the small stick-shaped counting chips from the chipman, and carried the goods to the freighter docked at the pier.

On the left hand side, the unloading coolies walked across the five-meter-long springboard, and after getting off the freighter, they straightly placed the cargo on their shoulders neatly on the cart for transporting the cargo.

Busy, spectacular at the same time.

Everything seemed orderly again, exuding a breath of fresh human fireworks.

"The wharf is where the stories of many new immigrants begin. The rise of Hong Kong Island from a small fishing village is inseparable from the wharf, and it is also inseparable from the boats of new immigrants who disembark from the wharf. goods."

Sanjiang Shui's tone was somewhat emotional.

"In the earliest days, this pier was just a safe haven for fishing boats and pirate ships.

After the opening of the port, the main traffic on the dock was opium, ordnance, foreign companies, and Gui Lao. Also docked at the port were Gui Lao's warships and foreign companies' merchant ships.

If you look at the present, most of the cargo ships calling at the port belong to Chinese-funded commercial firms.

The goods transported have also changed from opium in the past to specialties from the northern and southern provinces of the mainland, as well as medicinal materials from Southeast Asia. "

Sanjiangshui paused, stretched out a finger and pointed to the distance and asked:
"Do you know where it is?"

Ang Lee looked in the direction of his finger, and he could vaguely see the outline of the highest peak on Hong Kong Island.

"Peak Mountain?"

San Jiangshui nodded lightly, then laughed and said:
"Do you know what Taipingshan was called before?"

He didn't expect Li An to answer, so he said to himself:
"Tuqishan! You can tell from the name, it smells like a bandit's lair. Pulling the flag means that pirates and bandits gather and the flags are flying.

Taipingshan?It's just that those ghost guys changed the name after they moved there and thought it didn't sound good.

However, it doesn't matter whether it is changed or not. The current Gui Lao is no different from the previous pirates, but it matches well with the Qishan. "

San Jiangshui stretched out his finger and pointed to the sparkling sea, looking at Li An seriously:

"Actually, the pier is just like the surface of the sea. The ups and downs are just appearances. They are eternal and always pulled by different forces. Of course, it's not just the pier. As long as it is a place of interest, it is the same."

Hearing this, Li An was a little surprised that his nominal senior brother could say such philosophical words.

Sanjiang Shui patted Li An on the shoulder.

"You are also my junior brother, otherwise I wouldn't have told you so much."

"I know, brother."

Li An nodded slightly.

"Brother Water!"

Following the voice came a young man dressed as a coolie wearing a short shirt and a sweat towel around his neck.

After arriving in front of the two of them, he first looked at Li An curiously, and then pointed his finger at the simple pergola built on the pier not far away.

"Dakou Ying is here. He has been waiting for almost an hour. He said he wants to see you if he has something to do."

Sanjiang Shui raised his eyebrows: "Dongfuhe's? If you don't run the opium shop on the dock well, what can you do with me?"

The young man guessed and said:

"Are you here to rescue the soldiers? I heard that recently, Dongfuhe and Heyitang have fought several times for the territory on the pier."

"You'll know just by asking."

Sanjiang Shui smiled.He led the two of them towards the arbor.

As soon as he entered the pergola, he asked the dark man sitting in front of the wooden table:

"Hello? Dakouying! Ajie said you need me for something?"

Sanjiang Shui said, pulled a bench and sat down, then motioned to Li An behind him to sit next to him.

Dakouying looked at Li An, with a strange look in his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, she quickly got up, took the teapot on the table, and poured two cups of herbal tea in front of the two of them.

"Brother Shui, you know, this Triangle Pier has always been our territory in Tung Fook Hop. Hop Yi Tang is in the minibus business in Sai Wan. Coming to Triangle Pier to grab the territory is completely breaking the rules."

San Jiangshui glanced at him, and said casually:
"There are twelve freight terminals at the Triangle Wharf, and there are eight if not ten small prefixes that make a living here. Are you sure it's your territory?"

"Uh." Dakouying paused, a little embarrassed.

Sanjiang Shui drank the herbal tea in one gulp and played with the cup:

"You all know that I don't mix names, so I don't care if you compete for land. You can just tell me what you want?"

"Borrowing someone." Having said that, Dakouying also got straight to the point and directly explained his purpose.

Sanjiang Shui put the cup on the table and looked at each other.

"Old rules! If you're going through the motions, twenty, if you do something, the price will double, and you will be responsible if something goes wrong."

Dakouying thought for a while, then nodded and said, "I want fifteen people tonight."

He took out Hong Kong dollars from his trouser pocket, counted 300 Hong Kong dollars and put them on the table before leaving with Ma Zai.

"Ajie, take the money and find fifteen people according to his request. If you ask anyone who is willing to go, just give them the money."

"understood."

The young man named Ajie responded, took the money on the table and walked towards the chipmaker who distributed the chips.

Seeing that there were no other people, Li An got up to refill the tea for Sanjiangshui, and asked curiously:
"Senior brother, if you join the club to compete for territory, will Master be angry if you find out?"

Hearing this, Sanjiang Shui smiled.

"Ruthless people with mixed names, which one hasn't practiced boxing kung fu? As long as we don't mix in associations, don't bully people, or bully ordinary citizens, Master will naturally not be angry. As you can see, I didn't take a cent of the money , since the people below are willing to gamble, I will naturally not stop them from making this money.

"Senior brother, don't these societies claim to have tens of thousands of people? Why do they have to spend money to hire people to fight for territory?"

When Li An heard this, he stopped worrying about the matter and instead took this opportunity to learn more about the club.

After all, if he does business in the future, he will inevitably deal with people from these associations.

"See those coolies loading and unloading?"

Sanjiang Shui gestured towards the coolies who were busy on the dock.

Then he said:

"Nine out of ten coolies here are people who have joined the club, and there are also peddlers and rickshaw pullers on the wharf.

What Fuyixing, He'anle, Heshenghe, Liangongle, Changle Club, there are a lot of these messy clubs, and some are small clubs that I haven't even heard of.

But what's the use of this? They are just ordinary people who use the name of the association to make a living. If you don't pay, who will work for you?Raising daggers also costs money. Do you know how much it costs to raise thousands of daggers?Even if you sell those big brothers in the society, you can't afford it.

Since Ge Zhaohuang's death, those surnamed Xiang were deported, and this is what the society has been like.

With tens of thousands of members, why do you still need to look at those plain clothes and the inspector's eyes?Can the ghost still sit still?Liar.If the association really has such a prestige, the governor of Hong Kong will have to salute when he sees it! "

(End of this chapter)